10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• WHAT PERCENT OF THE POPULATN IS GAY? MORE THAN YOU THK
• AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?
• IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?
• AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS
• AMERINS GREATLY OVERTIMATE PERCENT GAY, LBIAN U.S.
• AM I GAY?
• HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.
• IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC
• CATHOLIC PRITS: IT'S 'EMPIRIL FACT' THAT MANY CLERGY ARE GAY
• AM I GAY? QUIZ – 100% RELIABLE TT
• GAYT PLAC IN TENNSEE FOR 2020
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• GAY PRITS: BREAKG THE SILENCE

WHAT PERCENT OF THE POPULATN IS GAY? MORE THAN YOU THK

“The rults show non-heterosexualy and anti-gay sentiment are substantially unrtimated existg surveys, and the privacy afford by current bt practic is not always sufficient to elimate bias, ” note the rearchers, who were jt lookg at the way surveys might unr-unt both homosexualy and attus toward homosexualy. As Gallup poted out s ial timate of the entire LGBT populatn 2012, "Exactly who mak up the LGBT muny and how this group should be measured is a subject of some bate, " and "there are a number of ways to measure lbian, gay, and bisexual orientatn, and transgenr stat. Usg phallometric tt sensivi to lculate the proportn of te pedophil among var groups of sex offenrs agast children, and takg to nsiratn prevly reported mean numbers of victims per offenr group, the rat of heterosexual to homosexual pedophil was lculated to be approximately 11:1.

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AMERINS STILL GREATLY OVERTIMATE U.S. GAY POPULATN

In a st-cuttg move, the Atlanta Hawks are tradg guard TyTy Washgton Jr., and forwards Usman Gaba, Rudy Gay and a future send-round pick to the Oklahoma Cy Thunr for Patty Mills, sourc told ESPN on Saturday. Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY [UPDATED MAY 2023]

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. "Uwu gay furri pwn you~ We'll be back aga soon to ntue our chaos and stctn!"Some news outlets, such as Them, raised ncerns that the group's actns uld expose random people to harm, not jt the targeted ernments.

Supreme Court support of anti-gay 's male ers may not reflect the larger LGBTQ muny which largely vot Democrat, and LGBTQ voters may have soured on Tmp havg seen his admistratn's handlg of queer pollg also suggts that most LGBTQ voters will oppose Tmp. Whether creased acceptance of homosexualy has led to an upsurge the number of posive media portrayals of gay characters or vice versa, one rult seems to be that Amerins now tend to overtimate the gay populatn Ameri. The NGTF’s most proment mpaigng slogan was “we are everywhere”, backed up by the memorable statistil claim that one 10 of the US populatn was gay – this figure was eply and passnately where did Bce Voeller, a scientist who was a founr and first director of the NGTF, get this nice round 10% om?

To fd out, we have to lve back to Aled Ksey’s surveys 1940s Ameri, which were groundbreakg at the time but are now seen as archaic their methods: he sought out rponnts prisons and the gay unrworld, ma iends wh them and, over a cigarette, noted down their behavurs g an obscure .

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

Ksey did not believe that sexual inty was fixed and simply tegorised, and perhaps his most lastg ntributn was his sle, still ed today, which dividuals are rated om exclively heterosexual to exclively homosexual on a sle of 0 to ’s headle fdg was that “at least 37% of the male populatn has some homosexual experience between the begng of adolcence and old age”, meang physil ntact to the pot of asm. Photograph: Bill Dellenback/APSo, 1973, when Voeller was puttg together the NGTF mpaign, he went back to Ksey’s timat for those wh predomantly homosexual experience (4 to 6 on his sle) for at least three years. But even cleaned-up data gave siar answers, and Voeller stuck to the 10%, statg 1990 that “the ncept that 10% of the populatn is gay has bee a generally accepted ‘fact’… As wh so many piec of knowledge (and myths), repeated tellg ma so.

But, jt as the UK, the route US Natnal Health Interview Survey (NHIS) up wh a lower figure for bisexualy than the dited sex surveys: seems plsible that there is ls willgns to acknowledge bisexual inty route surveys, whereas those who clearly intify themselv as gay or lbian are willg to be more upont sexual behavur n e all gre of tensy. History might provi some explanatn: men now aged around 60 were teenagers the liberatg 60s, when homosexualy was legalised, while men who are now around 70 grew up when same-sex male behavur men was illegal and equently prosecuted. That’s jt what we fd reputable surveys: the last big US survey, 10% of women and 3% of men who intified themselv as “heterosexual” also reported a same‑sex the public health world the rather clumsy phrase “men who have sex wh men” (MSM) rather than “homosexual” or “gay” there is one characteristic that un female and male same-sex experience: the rat are two to three tim higher among those wh further tn than those wh no wh chang behavur, there’s been a nsistent shift attus to same-sex partnerships.

In the 1940s, the Ksey Report helped flate the size of the gay populatn people's mds: Aled Ksey mataed sexualy was fluid, claimg that 13 percent of men were "predomately homosexual" for at least three years between ag 16 and 55. He also reported that at least 37 percent of men and 20 percent of women had some same-sex experience between the begng of adolcence and old the 1970s, the Natnal Gay and Lbian Taskforce cnched Ksey's data and touted the statistic that 10 percent of the populatn was homosexual. As Gallup poted out s ial report of LGBT data 2012, "Exactly who mak up the LGBT muny and how this group should be measured is a subject of some bate, " and "There are a number of ways to measure lbian, gay, and bisexual orientatn, and transgenr stat.

THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY

The wily off-the-mark nature of Amerins' timat is unrsred by the fdg that the most recent update, om May 6-10, only 9% of Amerins timate that the gay and lbian populatn is ls than 5% -- where Gallup's trackg figure would put -- while at the other end of the spectm, 33% timate as more than 25%. Republins and nservativ are much ls likely than others to nsir gay and lbian relatns morally acceptable and to favor legalized same-sex marriage, and Republins provi timat of the gay and lbian populatn that are somewhat lower than those ma by other party groups. The aly the relatnships uld n both ways; attus toward gays and lbians uld be ndned by views of how prevalent they are the populatn, or timat of their prevalence uld reflect unrlyg attus toward the group.

The overtimatn may also reflect proment media portrayals of gay characters on televisn and movi, even as far back as 2002, and perhaps the high visibily of activists who have phed gay , particularly legalizg same-sex marriage. Among Christians the numbers were lower—but only slightly, wh jt unr 30 percent of Millennial Christians intifyg as portn of the populatn that scrib self as gay has varied over the years, om 10 percent, based on rearch by Aled Ksey and wily promoted by the Natnal Gay Task Force 1977, to ls than 6 percent a recent Gallup poll.

The Gallup survey nclud that one six Amerins ag 18-23 were gay, lbian, bisexual or 's poll is based on a samplg of 600 rponnts reprentg Millennials weighted for factors such as geographic lotn, race and genr who took an average of 17 mut each to answer 71 poll didn't ask directly whether the rponnt was gay or straight, askg stead to choose an answer to the qutn: "Thkg about your mments, would you scribe yourself as.... Also, a high percent of Millennial Christians (27 percent) and born-aga Millennial Christians (28 percent) scribe themselv as LGBTQ, even though many fah groups endorse only heterosexual marriage and are sometim dismissed as homophobic by gay rights the large number of Millennials who intify as LGBTQ is attentn-grabbg, Barna says what he found "really tertg is that 40 percent of them fall to the tegory of what we ll the 'don'ts;' they don't believe that God exists, they don't re if God exists. Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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Wh effective preventn and treatment tools at our disposal, the natn has a s--the-makg opportuny to end the domtic HIV epimic and elimate dispari HIV preventn and re among gay and bisexual men and other populatns disproportnately affected by HIV. That means there are a total of 7, 825 gay hoeholds The Volunteer goal wh this post is to e data and science to terme the gayt ci analyzg 139 ci wh over 1, 000 hoeholds, we’ve termed the are The Gayt Ci Tennsee for 2020. Acrdg to the facts, Trenton is the gayt place Tennsee for more on how we lculated the top ten, and for more rmatn about the plac, read you’re lookg for somethg more natnal, check out the gayt ci more Tennsee readg, check out:Bt Plac To Live In TennseeCheapt Plac To Live In TennseeMost Dangero Ci In TennseeThe 10 Gayt Ci In Tennsee For 2020Source: Public domaHoeholds: 1, 645Rank Last Year: 1 (No Change)Gay Hoeholds: 31 (22nd hight)% Gay Hoeholds: 3.

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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY

Or skip to the end to see the list of all the plac the state om gayt to You Have It – The Most LGBT Friendly Ci In Tennsee For 2020If you’re lookg at the number of gay hoeholds Tennsee, this is an accurate you’re cur enough, here are the least gay plac Tennsee:WoodburyJelliGatlburgFor more Tennsee readg, check out:Richt Ci In TennseeSaft Plac In TennseeWorst Plac To Live In TennseeMost Expensive Plac To Live In TennseeDetailed List Of The Gayt Plac To Live In TennseeRankCyHoeholds% Gay Hoeholds1Trenton1, 6453. Ever sce born-aga sger and orange juice pchwoman Ana Bryant helped kick off the ntemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-le elements of the relig right have been searchg for ways to monize gay people — or, at a mimum, to fd arguments that will prevent their normalizatn society. But addn to hawkg that myth, the legns of anti-gay activists who followed have add a panoply of others, rangg om the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientatn is a choice, to unalloyed li like the claims that gay men molt children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalizatn of btialy and necrophilia.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

The fairy tal are important to the anti-gay right bee they form the basis of s claim that homosexualy is a social evil that mt be supprsed — an opn rejected by virtually all relevant medil and scientific thori. Depictg gay men as a threat to children may be the sgle most potent weapon for stokg public fears about homosexualy — and for wng electns and referenda, as Ana Bryant found out durg her succsful 1977 mpaign to overturn a Da County, Fla., ordance barrg discrimatn agast gay people.

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATN IS GAY?

Others have ced a group lled the Amerin College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) to claim, as Tony Perks of the Fay Rearch Council did November 2010, that "the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a [moltatn] danger to children. Gregory Herek, a profsor at the Universy of California, Davis, who is one of the natn's leadg rearchers on prejudice agast sexual mori, reviewed a seri of studi and found no evince that gay men molt children at higher rat than heterosexual men. The Amerin Amy of Child & Adolcent Psychiatry affirmed 2013 that “[c]urrent rearch shows that children wh gay and lbian parents do not differ om children wh heterosexual parents their emotnal velopment or their relatnships wh peers and adults” and they are “not more likely than children of heterosexual parents to velop emotnal or behavral problems.

The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics (AAP) a 2002 policy statement clared: "A growg body of scientific lerature monstrat that children who grow up wh one or two gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social, and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual. ” Schumm, who has also argued that lbian relatnships are unstable, has ti to discreded psychologist and anti-LGBT fabulist Pl Cameron, the thor of numero pletely basels “studi” about the alleged evils of homosexualy. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn noted a 2000 fact sheet available on the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists, that alg wh gay, lbian and bisexual issu, that sexual abe do not appear to be any more prevalent among children who grow up and intify as gay, lbian or bisexual than children who grow up and intify as heterosexual.

IS 10% OF THE POPULATN REALLY GAY?

Siarly, the Natnal Organizatn on Male Sexual Victimizatn not on s webse that "experts the human sexualy field do not believe that premature sexual experienc play a signifint role late adolcent or adult sexual orientatn" and add that 's unlikely that anyone n make another person gay or heterosexual. Anti-LGBT anizatns, seekg to promote heterosexualy as the healthier "choice, " often offer up the purportedly shorter life spans and poorer physil and mental health of gays and lbians as reasons why they shouldn't be allowed to adopt or foster children. On the basis of the same obuari, Cameron also claimed that gay men are 18 tim more likely to die r accints than heterosexuals, 22 tim more likely to die of heart attacks than wh, and 11 tim more likely than blacks to die of the same e.

Anti-LGBT anizatns have also tried to support this claim by distortg the work of legimate scholars, like a 1997 study nducted by a Canadian team of rearchers that alt wh gay and bisexual men livg Vanuver the late 1980s and early 1990s.

AMERINS VASTLY OVERTIMATE SIZE OF GAY POPULATN, GALLUP POLL REVEALS

Anti-gay activists, who have long opposed addg LGBT people to those protected by hate crime legislatn, have repeatedly claimed that such laws would lead to the jailg of relig figur who preach agast homosexualy — part of a bid to ga the backg of the broar relig muny for their posn. Anti-gay groups have been adamantly opposed to allowg gay men and lbians to serve openly the armed forc, not only bee of their purported fear that bat reads will be unrmed, but bee the ary has long been nsired the purt merocracy Ameri (the armed forc were succsfully racially tegrated long before Amerin civil society, for example).

AMERINS GREATLY OVERTIMATE PERCENT GAY, LBIAN U.S.

At the same time, gays and lbians have served openly for years the armed forc of 25 untri (as of 2010), cludg Bra, Israel, South Ai, Canada and Atralia, acrdg to a report released by the Palm Center, a policy thk tank at the Universy of California at Santa Barbara. Dpe the fact that gay men and lbians have been servg openly the ary sce September 2011, anti-LGBT groups ntue to claim that openly gay personnel are g problems the ary, cludg claims of sexual abe by gay and lbian soldiers of straight soldiers.

Though is te that LGBT people tend to suffer higher rat of anxiety, prsn, and prsn-related illns and behavrs like alhol and dg abe than the general populatn, that is due to the historil social stigmatizatn of homosexualy and vlence directed at LGBT people, not bee of homosexualy self. A report prented by the Council on Scientific Affairs to the AMA Hoe of Delegat Interim Meetg wh regard to reparative (“ex-gay”) therapy noted that most of the emotnal disturbance gay men and lbians experience around their sexual inty is not based on physlogil , but rather on “a sense of alienatn an unacceptg environment. Mark Hatzenbuehler, a socmedil scienc profsor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia Universy, said that the data gathered the study suggts that “sexual mori livg muni wh high levels of anti-gay prejudice have creased risk of mortaly, pared to low-prejudice muni.

Qazi Rahman, study -thor and a leadg scientist on human sexual orientatn, said: "This study puts ld water on any ncerns that we are lookg for a sgle 'gay gene' or a sgle environmental variable which uld be ed to 'select out' homosexualy — the factors which fluence sexual orientatn are plex. The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics stated 1993 (updated 2004) that “homosexualy has existed most societi for as long as rerd scriptns of sexual beliefs and practic have been available” and that even at that time, “most scholars the field state that one’s sexual orientatn is not a choice … dividuals do not choose to be homosexual or heterosexual.

AM I GAY?

A number of "ex-gay" relig mistri have spng up recent years wh the aim of teachg gay people to bee heterosexuals, and the have bee prime purveyors of the claim that gays and lbians, wh the aid of mental therapy and Christian teachgs, n "e out of homosexualy.

HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.

"Reparative" or sexual reorientatn therapy — the psdo-scientific foundatn of the ex-gay movement — has been rejected by all the tablished and reputable Amerin medil, psychologil, psychiatric and profsnal unselg anizatns. The Amerin Medil Associatn officially oppos reparative therapy that is “based on the assumptn that homosexualy per se is a mental disorr or based on an a prri assumptn that the person should change his/her homosexual orientatn.

LGBT populatn 2023, by stat of transgenr exclns health suranceTransgenr suici rate the Uned Stat 2022, by sex assigned at birthThe most important statisticsNumber of untri that crimalize homosexualy 2022U. StatisticsAmerin men and women who intify as homosexual, bisexual, or transgenr, by stateShare of French people who have ever felt unfortable around LGBT people 2019Sexual orientatn of Amerins 2013Transgenr intifitn Lat Ameri 2016, by untryFaiary wh the LGBT muny Lat Ameri 2016Lat Ameri: murrs of trans & genr-diverse people 2008-2021Opns on unique spirual gifts of transgenr people India 2017Opn on transgenr people's place Japan 2017Opns among Japane whether transgenr people have a form of mental illns 2017Opns on whether transgenr people have a mental illns India 2017Individuals who thk transgenr people are brave Poland 2017Opn on high school female trans athlet petg the U.

"Their place is not mistry or nsecrated life, " he Jam Mart, a Ju prit and thor, and the most high-profile advote for LGBTQ Catholics, said, "I thk that if you had sudnly all the gay prits the Uned Stat e out, I thk the Church would be forced to look at the qutn of homosexualy a very different light. Father Greg Green, fahfully servg his parish Wisns, said secrecy is a surge the church, so the first step for him is beg open and asked, "You signed up to work for an stutn that thks beg gay, actg out on that, is a s.

IN A SURVEY OF AMERIN MLIMS, 0% INTIFIED AS LBIAN OR GAY. HERE’S THE STORY BEHD THAT STATISTIC

Bernatte Catholic Parish, Milwkee, Jam Mart on Twter"In the Closet of the Vatin: Power, Homosexualy, Hypocrisy" by Frédéric Martel (Bloomsbury Contuum), Hardver, Tra Paperback, eBook and Aud formats, available via Amazon and Indiebound Story produced by Sari Aviv and Anna Matranga.

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